Najran (Saudi Arabia)

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Conversation topics:

Circle of life, Women

Documentation:

Yaʿel Wecsler

Year of recording:

2022

Synagogue, jewelry making, sharpening knives

Name of speaker:

Shoshana Yaʿish (Shamʿa Gamill)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Mikve attendant, day center cook

Age of speaker at time of recording:

85

Year of immigration:

1950

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Occupations and livelihoods, Synagogues

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

Yaʿel Wecsler

Year of recording:

2022

Relations with the village sheikh and the non-Jewish neighbors

Name of speaker:

Shoshana Yaʿish (Shamʿa Gamill)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Mikve attendant, day center cook

Age of speaker at time of recording:

85

Year of immigration:

1950

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Persons, Relationships with non-Jews, Women

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

Yaʿel Wecsler

Year of recording:

2022

Immersion in the well

Name of speaker:

Shoshana Yaʿish (Shamʿa Gamill)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Mikve attendant, day center cook

Age of speaker at time of recording:

85

Year of immigration:

1950

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Customs and traditions, Women

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

Yaʿel Wecsler

Year of recording:

2022

History of Arabian Peninsula Jewry from antiquity to the present day

Name of speaker:

David Shuker

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Head of the Bnei Ayish Council and chairman of the Committee for the Rescue of Yemenite Jews

Age of speaker at time of recording:

75

Year of immigration:

1951

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Community, Geographical space, Relationships with non-Jews

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

Yaʿel Wecsler

Year of recording:

2022

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אזור נג'ראן נמצא בסעודיה על הגבול עם תימן.

Prayer on weekdays and holidays, tefillin and bar mitzva

Name of speaker:

David Shuker

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Head of the Bnei Ayish Council and chairman of the Committee for the Rescue of Yemenite Jews

Age of speaker at time of recording:

75

Year of immigration:

1951

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Conversation topics:

Circle of life, Prayer

Documentation:

Yaʿel Wecsler

Year of recording:

2022

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אזור נג'ראן נמצא בסעודיה על הגבול עם תימן.

Matchmaking, wedding and ḥenna

Name of speaker:

David Shuker

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Head of the Bnei Ayish Council and chairman of the Committee for the Rescue of Yemenite Jews

Age of speaker at time of recording:

75

Year of immigration:

1951

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Conversation topics:

Wedding, Women

Documentation:

Yaʿel Wecsler

Year of recording:

2022

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אזור נג'ראן נמצא בסעודיה על הגבול עם תימן.

Demons: identifying them, how they attach to people and treating them

Name of speaker:

David Shuker

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Head of the Bnei Ayish Council and chairman of the Committee for the Rescue of Yemenite Jews

Age of speaker at time of recording:

75

Year of immigration:

1951

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Conversation topics:

Folk beliefs

Documentation:

Yaʿel Wecsler

Year of recording:

2022

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אזור נג'ראן נמצא בסעודיה על הגבול עם תימן.

Immersion of women in rivers and wells

Name of speaker:

David Shuker

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Head of the Bnei Ayish Council and chairman of the Committee for the Rescue of Yemenite Jews

Age of speaker at time of recording:

75

Year of immigration:

1951

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Conversation topics:

Community, Women

Documentation:

Yaʿel Wecsler

Year of recording:

2022

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אזור נג'ראן נמצא בסעודיה על הגבול עם תימן.

Leaving Saudi Arabia, passing through Yemen and making aliya to Israel

Name of speaker:

David Shuker

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Head of the Bnei Ayish Council and chairman of the Committee for the Rescue of Yemenite Jews

Age of speaker at time of recording:

75

Year of immigration:

1951

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language: